TheBaker Museum (formerly theNaples Museum of Art) is part of Artis–Naples, a multidisciplinary organization that also is the home of the Naples Philharmonic, located at 5833 Pelican Bay Boulevard,Naples,Florida. The museum, opened in 2000 and later renamed for philanthropists Patty and Jay Baker, houses a diverse collection of art in a three-story, 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m2) facility.[1] The permanent collection includes works ofAmerican modernism, 20th-centuryMexican art,sculpture and 3-dimensional art.[2] In addition to the permanent collection, the museum hosts traveling exhibits throughout the year. The Baker Museum also houses the Sisters Reading Room, which contains the Saldukas Family Foundation library collection.
The museum's permanent collection is made up of over 3,500 objects of20th- and21st-century art, particularlyAmerican andMexican modern art. The collection continues to grow through donations and museum purchases.
The museum acquired theAhmet Ertegun collection in 1999, which contains about 300 works ofModernist art from the 1910s through the 1960s. The collection has works by artistsA. E. Gallatin,Morgan Russell,Marsden Hartley,Stanton Macdonald-Wright,Thomas Hart Benton,Helen Torr, andStuart Davis.[3]
The museum acquired the Harry Pollak collection in 2002, which contains works of modernMexican art dated from 1900 to 1980. Artists includeLeonora Carrington,Diego Rivera,José Clemente Orozco,Rufino Tamayo, andDavid Alfaro Siqueiros.[3]
The museum was gifted the Bryna Prensky collection in 2007, which containsMexican art from artists like Mario Rangel and Felipe Saúl Peña.
TheOlga Hirshhorn collection was acquired in 2013 and 2016, and contains a diverse collection ofmodern andcontemporary art by artists such asJosef Albers,Alexander Calder,Georgia O'Keeffe,Man Ray,Willem de Kooning,Pablo Picasso, andEd Ruscha.[3]
The Paul and Charlotte Corddry collection was donated to the museum in 2016, and containsmodern andcontemporary art fromAmerican artists, includingRobert Motherwell,Roy Lichtenstein,Marilyn Minter,Larry Rivers,Ed Moses,Viola Frey,James Rosenquist,Pat Steir,Frank Stella,John Wesley,Ellsworth Kelly, andRobert Rauschenberg.[3]
The Baker Museum hosts events including exhibition lectures, workshops, Art After Hours, and Artists' Studio Tour to celebrate the visual arts and lifelong learning. Every last Wednesday of the month from 6pm to 9pm, visitors to the museum for Art After Hours get free admission.[1]
The Baker Museum was designed by Florida architectEugene Aubry and opened to the public in 2000. It closed for repairs in September 2017 due to water damage caused byHurricane Irma.[4] The museum reopened in December 2019 after two years of building repairs.[5] The museum is undergoing an expansion project set to be complete in Summer 2020 to add an additional 18,000 square feet, which will house objects from its collection, host events, and create social gathering spaces.[6] The expansion project was designed byWeiss/Manfredi.[7]
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